Couple Quote by Nina Simone

“I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.”

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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...…

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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow…

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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with…

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I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United…

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There's no excuse for the young...

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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have…

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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

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